Watch it burn the fire you started in me; any

[Felicitey]

The cold breeze tickled her cheek as she stood solemnly between two thick redwoods, shorter than most but settled like two sentries upon the rough terrace she stood upon now. The view before her stretched on forever, it seemed. The tree tops dead and bare expanding to her right towards the ocean and left towards the rest of Beqanna. 

The blue of her eye the same shade as the dull pale sky above her. It seemed heavy as if the sky would break at any moment with a soft downpour of the most intricate solidified masses of water. Snowflakes as bright and light as the ones that had dappled her muzzle since birth.

It was an odd sensation of loneliness in this moment. She had always been with out others of her species since she was just a young child lost in this world but bound by fear to her home. 

Until she had met Aries and Dracarys, Dexter her companion animal had been the only comfort she had known. Until Aries had found her half deaf and half blind in the same place she had always been and had insisted she come "home" with him she had relied on Dexter only. 

And that is where her story changed forever.

She had found herself with child, Aries child. Now someone would depend on her, whether she wanted them to or not. It had pissed her off, she hadn't asked for this or to be abandoned by the one man she trusted once he had seen for himself what she carried inside her. 

She had been alone when the baby came. She had been alone when to her surprise one baby turned to two. She had been alone in a home that wasn't her home, raising children who had grown on her for the last year. 

And now she finds herself alone once again while the twins escape to play in their home and Dexter searches those barren tree tops for some semblance of sustenance. 

The wind had grown sharper, colder and it stung now across that cheek it once kissed pulling from her eye a single tear against its will. When had life become so utterly lonely? When had the spirit of freedom and excitement she had felt as a child been replaced by stagnant feelings of utter indifference? 

She needed more than this she thought as she stared at the frozen ground beneath her hooves. With little thought she morphed. Her thick, pale, golden coat grew longer and thicker as her thin angular face grew broader and shorter whiskers sprouted against her tender cheeks. Her hooves became giant paws as she clawed the ground breaking its frozen form. Her body was slender in her lioness form but held the power of the beast she was. 

Her maw opened and a echoing roar ripped from her throat frightening a flock of birds from the perch nearby. She watched curiously with that one pale blue eye and her black useless eight ball eye decorated by a beautiful rose gold sun. 

Her frustrations ripped from her throat once more between those two sentinel trees.

[Rayie]

Rayie

 Unspoiled waters coat the Taigan border, speckles of sea ice drifting away from the frozen Isle, travelling for miles until they all melt away into the warm waters, some larger pieces eventually colliding into the rocky shore, or washing up malformed on the sand. The thick salty air that hangs around the coast is pleasant, and Rayie holds it in her lungs for a moment, admiring the cold in the air and the bitterness of it. The hum of the ocean is pleasing also, an orchestra of waves and carving rock that blends into a sound she has not heard very often, a lot more calming than the eerie sounds of echoes and screams that resonate within Pangea's canyons.

She smiles for a moment, turning inward toward the mainland, the tall redwoods towering over her and casting an almost malicious and impressive shadow.
Soft pines and needles scattered across the forest floor bend and stick to her soft woolen pads, claws unsheathed as they dig into the scattered snow, providing her as much grip as possible, making sure she does not slip.
The smell of the forest is an almost delectable taste, filling her lungs with a fresh blend of pinewood and an array of flowers, softly blooming under a white blanket of snow.
The sound and light inside the forest is vastly different, the hum from the sea invades from behind her, though it is blocked by the stationary trees, their immense stature and width blocking out the sound and creating a whiz of wind and twisted sound from the call of birds and crunch of leaves, it is also pleasant and relaxing.

Though as usual, the peace does not last very long. An earsplitting cry sends her off balance, her eyes suddenly open, darting across the dim forest which is now dimly lit, the thick canopy sheltering the forest floor from the dry sunlight, or perhaps stealing it, using the light for its own benefit.
The lioness perks her ears, the tone sounds familiar and so she decides to investigate, her travels could wait anyway.

Her companion joins her side as they near the familiar scent, though she tells the animal to stay further back, her annoyance toward it quite visible, though for now, she does not focus on him, they are close, and the scent is now becoming stronger.

"Well, well, well" she whispers, a growing grin tugging at the sides of her maw.
"I didn't think I would see you again. It's been a while" she says, almost quite happy to see Felicitey again, glad that she wasn't alone in the forest.
"How have you been?" she asks curiously, her head cocked to the side and her tail grappling her legs as she sits down comfortably.

@[Felicitey]

[Felicitey]

She watched the birds take to the skies curiously, her thoughts and attention lingering there with those feathered beasts of the sky. What would it be like to take to the skies? The wind no longer stung her cheeks which were blanketed by the thick pelt that now cover her body but it did pull with it a familiar scent, a scent she had not sensed in years. Her mouth cocked into a crooked half smile as she scanned the tree line around her.

She focused on the space in front of her, the lines of her surroundings blurring and smudging together is fierce concentration as her other eye searched for that of her sisters vision. She had taken to practicing this gift of hers with both eyes open instead of one. She saw the trees shoot up before her, the canopy above still holding onto what foliage they could grasping at the sun and keeping it trapped above. She watched as her sisters companion retreated behind her sticking to the shadows. Finally, she saw herself standing with broad shoulders and an open stance upon that “hill” of hers. She heard her sister call to her as her vision shifted away slowly as she turned to look curiously at Rayie. It was an odd sensation, in her pale blue eye she saw her sister in her black, rose gold marbled eye she saw herself looking at her sister. She purred at all the similarities that were shared between them.

She bounded down the small hill, pouncing at her sister and rolling away before offering her own greeting, ”Rayie, hello! What are you doing here? Taiga is a long way from Pangea.” she offered.

A long way aways…

What was she doing here after all? Did something happen? Was she in trouble? A seriousness entered her face and her voice as she put one giant paw against her sisters cheek. ”I’ve never been better.. How are you?” she breathed, her pale blue eye focusing solely on her sister now.

@[Rayie]